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Peter Ives

@peterives.bsky.social
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Prof, Winnipeger, skier, rower, bike packer, dad, political & cultural theory, latest book: fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/rethinki…

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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 06/01/2026
Well it what Trump means by ‘rule’ that is bully with threats of violence , how he governs the US too
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
It could not be more clear by ‘running the country’ Trump means bullying with coercion, that is how he run the US too. www.ft.com/content/fed6...
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Donald Trump warns Venezuelan rulers as Washington prepares to dictate policy
US president says Latin American nation’s post-Maduro leader must give Washington ‘total access’
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
What an outrageous response to illegal international aggression!! Canada must do better!!!!
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
Another great oration from today “Let equity not be a promise but a practice“. Imam Khalid Latif #mamdani
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 02/01/2026
“a new politics and a new approach to power” — let’s hope this is the beginning of a movement that will sweep across America and beyond
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
This is all true but totally inadequate. If calling out hypocrisy was sufficient we never would have had the anti-cancel culture group think from the left and right. The left was duped and needs to be much more serious about what free speech means. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
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Cancel Culture’s Boomerang Effect
How we got to a place where free speech means whatever conservatives want to say
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
I'm very critical of the IHRA definition of 'antisemitism' but explain to me how specifically by its example, "Holding Jews collectively responsible for actions of the state of Israel." Wouldn't "consulting" the Canadian Jewish community in this case be antisemitic? www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Palestinian group praises Nakba exhibit coming to Canadian Human Rights while Jewish organization pans move | CBC News
A new exhibit on the Nakba, recounting the personal experiences of Canadian Palestinians who fled or were forced from their homes in 1948, is coming to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights. However, a...
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 09/11/2025
The ray of hope that is #Mamdani appoints Lina Khan to his transition team— how cool is that!!!
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 08/11/2025
@nytimes.com has been so disappointing for so long, this piece explains it well. My hope is that the growing movement that Mamdani represents will reveal to mainstream ‘liberal’ readers how it’s so problematic
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tamara nopper @tamaranopper.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
In the intro issue of New Left Review, Stuart Hall noted, “The humanist strengths of socialism—which are the foundations for a genuinely popular socialist movement—must be developed in cultural and social terms, as well as in economic and political.“ Zohran Kwame Mamdani‘s campaign got the point!
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Today is only the beginning. Our time has come, New York. Our time is now.
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Today is only the beginning.
YouTube video by Zohran Mamdani for NYC
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/10/2025
Chris Murphy: "There's a lot of history that has taken place in the East Wing & it was just destroyed without any conversation in the public, without any consent of Congress. It's absolutely illegal. That visual is powerful b/c you're watching destruction of the rule of law as those walls come down"
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
@carleton.ca has not succeeded dodging problems of pretended ‘neutrality’ with ‘impartiality,’ the purpose of universities is to be partial on the side of credible knowledge and responsibility but ‘academic freedom’ may be a better approach charlatan.ca/carleton-pol... #freeexpression #freespeech
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BREAKING: Proposed Carleton policy would limit freedom of speech on campus, advocates say - The Charlatan, Carleton's independent newspaper
Advocacy groups at Carleton University say the university's proposed institutional impartiality policy would limit free speech on campus.
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 13/10/2025
An excellent article by @malindasmith.bsky.social ! universityaffairs.ca/opinion/the-...
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The viewpoint diversity debate in Canadian universities - University Affairs
Taking free inquiry seriously means rejecting unverified crisis narratives.
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
#freespeech #freeexpression
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
An excellent article on the harms of residential school denialism. theconversation.com/confronting-...
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Confronting residential schools denialism is an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility
Residential schools denialism is harmful on many levels, and jeopardizes Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples to create a stronger future.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
Five corporations control 90% of the US media market. Airlines merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Please explain to me how this utter abuse of state power to silence protest and override the #FirstAmendment is not garnering the level of outrage that the canceling of #Kimmel did. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon
Apparently misled by hyperbolic reporting from conservative outlets on a single small protest, president described peaceful city as ‘war ravaged’
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
Please explain to me how this blatant abuse of govt power to silence protest is not garnering the level of outrage that the canceling of Kimmel did. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Donald Trump says he is deploying troops to Portland, Oregon
Apparently misled by hyperbolic reporting from conservative outlets on a single small protest, president described peaceful city as ‘war ravaged’
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
Now is the time for the Canadian government to back off its terrible vision for Canada Post and offer new services like a not for profit social media platform, banking, and parcel service that fits the 21st century #postalstrike #goCUPW
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
An excellent article on the harms of residential school denialism. theconversation.com/confronting-...
theconversation.com
Confronting residential schools denialism is an ethical and shared Canadian responsibility
Residential schools denialism is harmful on many levels, and jeopardizes Canada’s ability to work with Indigenous Peoples to create a stronger future.
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Indeed, but this intimidation is very real precisely because “Antifa” is not a defined organization, they can and will go after whoever they wish.
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
Marcetic in @jacobinmagazin.bsky.social makes excellent points, but this censorship is not like the Dem's fumbling attempts to regulate the cesspool of social media and its billions of profit. Its bullying the spineless corporate media world to enforce the shift to Trump's personal power.
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
When first read about Ruth Marshall’s tweet I couldn’t imagine a context that would change the interpretation but thats the thing about language and context …. pressprogress.ca/university-o...
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University of Toronto building shut down, police investigating threat, amid backlash to professor’s X post
While Ruth Marshall's comments were widely characterized as having concerned Charlie Kirk, evidence suggests a different context
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Cultural Critique @culturalcritique.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
Frame 13 is now LIVE on Cultural Critique Online, with new reviews from Timothy Bewes, @peterives.bsky.social, Wilton Schereka, and Daniel Y. Kim. Check it out at manifold.umn.edu/projects/cc1...
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Cultural Critique @culturalcritique.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
On Gramsci at Sea, “this book is a delight partially due to its unwillingness to deliver on its provocations"—find out why in @peterives.bsky.social's book review at manifold.umn.edu/read/cc-fram...
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Tom Penner 🇨🇦 he/him @chestnutfez.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Hear, hear.
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
Here’s my review of Sharad Chari’s _Gramsci at Sea_ manifold.umn.edu/projects/cc1...
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Cultural Critique Online | University of Minnesota Press Manifold
Welcome to *Cultural Critique Online,* the open-access online section of *Cultural Critique*. This journal provides a forum for creative and provocative scholarship in the theoretical humanities and h...
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Jeet Heer @jeetheer.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
It turns out that being endorsed by virtually everyone on Jeffrey Epstein's flight log is not in fact appealing to voters.
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Let’s be clear, N Korea wasn’t bombed because they have nuclear weapons. This gives #Iran little choice but to develop ‘deterrence’, but the US says it’s not a war, so we know they are in lulu land
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Thanks to the folks at @LeftStreamed for this: socialistproject.ca/leftstreamed...
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Rethinking Free Speech – North American Dilemmas /w Peter Ives
Peter Ives is professor of political science at the University of Winnipeg. He is the author of Rethinking Free Speech (Fernwood, 2024). We need to rethink free speech to better address diverse goals ...
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
412 academics, diplomats, former ministers, + lawyers send 🇨🇦 PM @markcarneyforpm.bsky.social letter re: Israel’s Gaza genocide demanding Canada “do everything in its power to stop these atrocities and support efforts to bring those responsible to account,” including sanctions + end to free trade.
• Insist on full humanitarian access to Gaza in a manner in keeping with core humanitarian principles of humanity, impartiality, neutrality and independence, and demand that the Israeli ban on the UN Relief and Works Agency be completely lifted.
• Publicly support the role of and fully comply with international courts in holding to account those who violate international law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory including Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Israel.
• Pursue all possible domestic measures, including immediately withdrawing from the free trade agreement between Canada and Israel, imposing sanctions on Israeli leaders and other individuals suspected of involvement in atrocity crimes, initiating investigations into charges of genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity under the Crimes Against Humanity and War Crimes Act (including any Canadians or dual nationals involved in such crimes) with the aim of prosecuting offenders in Canada or other jurisdictions, enforcing a full and comprehensive two- way arms embargo, and stripping charitable status from organizations found to be complicit in crimes under international law.
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Timothy Burke @bubbaprog.xyz · 07/06/2025
gosh that doesn't sound like him at all
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 03/06/2025
Great article about the danger's and creation of the narrative of "university neutrality" #academicfreedom, #PalestineException #institutionalneutrality ubyssey.ca/opinion/ubc-...
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Opinion: UBC's Palestine Exception — how re-interpreting the University Act enabled a lawsuit
The University Act was never intended to compel “institutional neutrality.” It was the Bacon administration that helped cultivate and disseminate a “perverse interpretation” of the statute, paving the...
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
I’m increasingly convinced by Angela Merkel’s argument that men are unsuited for political leadership because they’re too emotional
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
RIP Ngugi — such a pivotal influence in my grad school years and then an honour to meet in Winnipeg, was that 2009 or so? www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o - a giant of African literature - dies aged 87
The Kenyan author sent shockwaves through African literature by refusing to write in English.
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Ibram X. Kendi @ibramxk.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
All these colleges that are shutting down affinity graduations, affinity groups, antiracist and feminist speakers, diversity offices, anti-genocide demonstrations, Ethnic Studies programs, Gender Studies programs, or Queer Studies programs are not committed to ideological diversity.
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
Kara Swisher and Judith Butler — what a combo podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/o...
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Judith Butler on Why Gender Is in Trump’s Crosshairs
Podcast Episode · On with Kara Swisher · 2025-04-24 · 1h
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Happy Easter and if you have forgotten the story this is your best source music.apple.com/ca/album/hos...
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Hosanna by Victor Brox, Ian Gillan & Alan Doggett on Apple Music
Song · 1970 · Duration 2:09
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Doug Saunders @dougsaunders.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
To be fair, the king they had then was really fucking dumb
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MOFA-FAPUM @mofa-fapum.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
We've finally made the leap from the other place! 👋 Our first order of business is to congratulate our friends @umfa-faum.bsky.social on the ratification of their new collective agreement & to send our solidarity to our friends @appusb.bsky.social as they work towards a fair deal
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Thanks @caut.bsky.social , this is such an important point, “It’s worrying that a leader of a political party in Canada would try to dictate how research funds will be granted,” Mr. Robinson said. “This kind of American-style culture war has no place in Canada.”
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
iai.tv/articles/we-...
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We need to rescue free speech from its defenders | Peter Ives
Arguing over 'free speech' has become a political weapon used by both sides. Professor Peter Ives argues that free speech isn’t a single principle but a tangled web of competing ideals. Only by untang...
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
An excellent and important article
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11/04/2025
NEW: The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it's cashing in again on Trump’s plan to hold immigrants before deportation.
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From Lollapalooza to Detention Camps: Meet the Tent Company Making a Fortune Off Trump’s Deportation Plans
The privately held company Deployed Resources has made billions running tent detention facilities to hold immigrants entering the U.S. at the border. Now it is cashing in again on Trump’s plan to…
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
An important response to a dead in the water legal gambit! Although however ‘narrow’ I don’t see how ‘neutrality’ can ever be defined and operationalized
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Emmett Macfarlane 🇨🇦 @emmettmacfarlane.com · 12/02/2025
This statement by Trump's Press Secretary is literal fascism. It's already here. Meanwhile, most Americans appear absolutely apathetic about it.
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
A new short piece about my book #RethinkingFreeSpeech at the Institute for Art and Ideas iai.tv/articles/we-... #freespeech #freeexpression
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We need to rescue free speech from its defenders | Peter Ives
Arguing over 'free speech' has become a political weapon used by both sides. Professor Peter Ives argues that free speech isn’t a single principle but a tangled web of competing ideals. Only by untang...
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Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Don’t mess with @ellenlweintraub.bsky.social
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Peter Ives @peterives.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Save the date Winnipeg
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